On Jun 6, 11:59*am, "David Haggas" wrote:
"Anne Burgess" wrote in message

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I agree with you 100%, David, but especially the following.

Another area of confusion is trying to work out whether the general
weather information being given is for England or the UK as a whole. It
isn't always clear when the presenter refers to the 'far north' or
'across northern areas' whether he (or she) is referring to northern
England or Scotland. If they made a point of suffixing 'England' or
'Scotland', that would solve the problem, but they all too often don't
bother, so the weather predictions become meaningless.
Regards... David Allan (Tyne & Wear).

Some of them (not only weather forecasters) need to remember that they're
not the London Broadcasting Corporation, or the English Broadcasting
Corporation.

Referring to 'the north' or 'the north-east' or 'the north-west' is at
best meaningless and at worst misleading. There isn't quite the same
problem with 'the south' and 'the south-east' because they generally refer
to those parts of Britain, and that's fair enough when it's the British
Broadcasting Corporation.

It's also not unusual for entire chunks of the country to be missed out
entirely. "And now for Scotland. There will be rain in the west and sunny
spells in the south." Then I wait in vain to hear anything about the
north-east of Scotland, where I live, but apparently there isn't going to
be any weather here at all, because it isn't mentioned.

Anne

...But the BBC requires a dumbed down weather headline and for the presenter
to create a story, not a fact-based region by region scientific analysis -
that would be considered far too boring by media types.

The south east of England with its more continental (more interesting?)
climate invariably features heavily in this 'story' not necessarily because
of bias towards that region but because it generally has more extremes.

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I agree about the dumbed-down nature of the presentations. They
are a disgrace to Radio 4 which likes to call itself Britain's premier
speech station, which in most ways it is except for the present
subject.
As to the southeast, I cannot agree that it dominates in the way
that you say or for the reason you give. There have even been
occasions when the SE has been more or less ignored when the more
notable weather is happening elsewhere, as it often does. The
offenders are usually Schafernaker (who could not organise a ****-up
in a brewery and should never be allowed anywhere near a microphone)
or the robotic Tobyn, who gives the impression of not quite
understanding what she's saying, like G Dubya or a child in a Nativity
play.
It would be far better if the forecast were written out in
Exeter and sent to the BBC to be read out by an announcer. The
presenters we have add nothing and in some cases detract from the
forecast. There are exceptions of course, notably Peter Gibbs and
Nick Miller.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.